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Social entrepreneurship competence: evidence from founders of social enterprises in Romania

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  • Loredana Elisabeta Orhei
  • Sharda S. Nandram
  • Joop Vinke

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Social entrepreneurship has been defined until now by borrowing insights from commercial, Schumpeterian entrepreneurship as well as a new way of looking at non-profit work (Peredo and McLean, 2006; Short et al., 2009). Inspired by the use of a competence perspective to define entrepreneurship (European Commission, 2005), our main purpose in this article is to apply a competence perspective to social entrepreneurship, using a multidimensional framework. We start by looking at social entrepreneurship in the context of commercial entrepreneurship research. Next, we describe the concepts of competence and entrepreneurial competence as building blocks for our view. Then, we describe the research of the concept of competence for social entrepreneurship among 103 founders of social enterprises in Romania. Our main findings suggest that social entrepreneurship competence is comprised of a large spectrum of social and functional competences (rather than cognitive competence) and motivation to solve social problems.

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  • Loredana Elisabeta Orhei & Sharda S. Nandram & Joop Vinke, 2015. "Social entrepreneurship competence: evidence from founders of social enterprises in Romania," International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 25(1), pages 80-105.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijesbu:v:25:y:2015:i:1:p:80-105
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    1. Stefan Gabriel BURCEA, 2020. "Can Social Entrepreneurship And Social Enterprises Stimulate The Sustainable Development Of Local Communities?," APPLIED RESEARCH IN ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCES, Research Centre in Public Administration and Public Services, Bucharest, Romania, vol. 1(1), pages 17-23, August.
    2. Mina Angelova, 2019. "Performance of Social Entrepreneurs and Social Entrepreneurship in Bulgaria," Economic Studies journal, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences - Economic Research Institute, issue 6, pages 160-191.
    3. Ines Gabarret & Benjamin Vedel & Julien Decaillon, 2017. "A Social Affair: Identifying Motivation Of Social Entrepreneurs," Post-Print hal-01898921, HAL.
    4. Marco Cruz-Sandoval & José Carlos Vázquez-Parra & Patricia Esther Alonso-Galicia, 2022. "Student Perception of Competencies and Skills for Social Entrepreneurship in Complex Environments: An Approach with Mexican University Students," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 11(7), pages 1-13, July.

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